Irreversible Damage, Abigail Shrier
Irreversible Damage, Abigail Shrier
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Irreversible Damage
The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

Author: Abigail Shrier

Narrator: Pamela Almand

Unabridged: 9 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/30/2020

Synopsis

Irreversible Damage is an exploration of a mystery: Why, in the last decade, has the diagnosis “gender dysphoria,” transformed from a vanishingly rare affliction, applying almost exclusively to boys and men, to an epidemic among teenage girls?Author Abigail Shrier presents shocking statistics and stories from real families to show that America and the West have become fertile ground for a “transgender craze” that has nothing to do with real gender dysphoria and everything to do with our cultural frailty. Teenage girls are taking courses of testosterone and disfiguring their bodies. Parents are undermined; experts are over-relied upon; dissenters in science and medicine are intimidated; free speech truckles under renewed attack; socialized medicine bears hidden consequences; and an intersectional era has arisen in which the desire to escape a dominant identity encourages individuals to take cover in victim groups.Every person who has ever had a skeptical thought about the sudden rush toward a non-binary future but been afraid to express it—this book is for you.

About Abigail Shrier

Abigail Shrier is a writer for the Wall Street Journal. She holds an A.B. from Columbia College, where she received the Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship; a B.Phil. from the University of Oxford; and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

About Pamela Almand

Pamela Almand is a SAG/AFTRA voice actor and audiobook narrator with multiple awards and nominations from the Audio Publishers Association’s Audie Awards, Society of Voice Arts and Sciences’ Voice Arts Awards, and AudioFile magazine’s Earphones Award. A former international 747 captain for Delta Airlines, Almand has herself flown single-engine aircraft (including a tiny two-seat Cessna 152!) across the Atlantic. So she has a very special passion for narrating Amelia Earhart’s story. She lives in Atlantic Beach, Florida, with her husband, Amos.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Raine on July 03, 2020

This just got added to my list of "Books Every Feminist Should Read" and I loved it. There is a cult out there that is capturing girls who are told that girls and women are weak and boring, and when we exist in a culture that constantly bombards us with reasons why we should hate our bodies and the......more

Goodreads review by Stan on July 26, 2021

***New Updates below*** Funny to see the trans extremists come out to slam this book. They obviously haven't read it. Several real trans-people were interviewed for the book. This book is not transphobic for the simple fact that it is not about trans-people. It's about kids who *aren't trans* and have......more

Goodreads review by Hilary on June 30, 2020

This is a must-read for all parents and teachers. We recognize that young girls often search the internet for support while struggling to navigate the challenges of adolescence, and discover suggestions that may be misleading or injurious. Parents and teachers must now acknowledge the latest movement......more

Goodreads review by Kathleen on July 09, 2020

The people leaving 1-star reviews don't seem to be referencing the actual content of the book or have even pretended to read it. The author, for instance, refers to adult trans people by their gender id pronouns and names (contrary to the assertions that she does not in another review). As a long ti......more

Goodreads review by Linda on June 30, 2020

Superbly balanced analysis of a difficult twist on transgenderism, namely Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria. Shrier's skills as an investigative reporter are evident. She offers a combination of statistical data along with a broad range of expert opinion mixed with compelling personal accounts. I taught......more

Quotes

“A deeply compassionate and utterly sobering account of an unprecedented and reckless social experiment whose test subjects are the bodies and psyches of the most emotionally vulnerable among us.” John Podhoretz, New York Times bestselling author, editor of Commentary

“Courage is a rare trait. Abigail Shrier has it in abundance.” Dennis Prager, New York Times bestselling author, nationally syndicated radio talk show host

A must-read for all those who care about the lot of our girls and women. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, New York Times and internationally bestselling author, research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution

“Every parent needs to read this gripping travelogue through Gender Land.” Helen Joyce, senior staff writer at the Economist

“In Irreversible Damage, Abigail Shrier provides a thought-provoking examination of a new clinical phenomenon mainly affecting adolescent females—what some have termed rapid-onset gender dysphoria…It is a book that will be of great interest to parents, the general public, and mental health clinicians.” Kenneth J. Zucker, adolescent and child psychologist and chair of the DSM-5 Work Group on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders

“Shrier has actual courage.” Ben Shapiro, #1 New York Times bestselling author, editor in chief of the Daily Wire, host of The Ben Shapiro Show

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